BUCYRUS - The entertainment line-up for the 51 Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival will feature a wide variety of acts.

The festival is an annual celebration of Bratwurst and German culture that takes place every August in downtown Bucyrus. This year's festival will be Aug. 16-18.

Assistant festival director Kevin Meyers said several of the acts that were new for last year will be returning for a second year, such as the Polka Pirates and the Erik Gimbel Orchestra.

On Saturday night, veteran country-rock band McGuffey Lane will perform on the FC Bank stage.

New this year is Columbus-based band, Stadium II, which plays a variety of 1970s and 1980s rock music covers. Meyers said the festival committee heard the band at an entertainment showcase, where they were looking at potential acts.

"As soon as they started playing, we decided we wanted to have them," he said.

Matthew Hoover, a seventh-grade science teacher for Bucyrus City Schools, will perform at the festival with his band, Matthew Hoover & the Supersaints, on Saturday.

This year, there will be three stages for acts, according to the official entertainment schedule. The Wyandot Mutual Insurance stage will be on West Rensselaer Street. The FC Bank stage will be in the parking lot of the bank and the Ohio Mutual Family Fun Zone will be in the parking lot of Family Video. Schines Art Park also will have a stage set up for the festivities.

Myers also said the festival is still looking for volunteers for various parts of the event. He said volunteering "wouldn't take more than two hours of anyone's time."

According to the list of open spaces on the Bratwurst Festival website, the festival needs 309 more volunteers. People who are interested can sign up at the site.